the end of the world: romii fulton-smith and madeleine stack

march 2018

wreckers artspace, brisbane

Consisting of sculpture, text, and installation, TEOTW brings art objects from both artists’ practices to a space of post-world remnants, of mourning and celebration of what was and what can never be again. Unpacking the end of the world as a the overlap between their individual art practices, Romii and Madeleine ask how our methodologies of thought and practice reflect a kind of political and ecological viewpoint? How can the structure of the artwork have a stem in one place and a root in another, picked up randomly and at a distance from its origin?

When participating in a watery mode of engagement, even complete stillness is total motion: suspension in a substance that is at ease holding you, one that requires an instinctive movement rather than a planned one, or else the body will sink like a stone.

1. Into the gutter meditation, 2018, headphones and MP3 player, resin, wax, snakeskin, glass, jasmine petals, rosemary, gelatine, moss, sound

2. broken glass, resin, ink, poinciana petals

3. jellyfish Economy (spit window), 2018, gelatine, broken glass, saliva

4. Jellyfish Economy (unwelcoming doormat), 2018, gelatine, bronze, hair

Photographs by Grace Fisher, Sarah Poulgrain and Madeleine Stack